“This is not the role” of the resigning government, denounces the rebellious Mathilde Panot

The Prime Minister has proposed the renewal of credits to each ministry. On Tuesday, he sent them ceiling letters determining their staff numbers and their allocated resources in view of the preparation of the 2025 budget.

“It’s a scandal to do this”sharply criticized the president of the La France insoumise group in the National Assembly, invited to France Inter on Wednesday, August 21. “It is not the role” of the resigning government to propose the renewal of credits to each ministry for the 2025 budget, denounced Mathilde Panot. Prime Minister Gabriel Attal decided to send the ceiling letters on Tuesday evening which set the budget for the coming year for each ministry and the expenses not to be exceeded.

Matignon defended this decision for several reasons. First of all, to ensure the continuity of the State, so that the budget is, as required by law, before Parliament on October 1 at the latest. Another objective is to keep the promise to bring the public deficit below the 3% mark in 2027. “It’s been seven weeks [plus précisément 45 jours depuis le second tour des élections législatives] that he [Emmanuel Macron] refuses to name the leading coalition”protests Mathilde Panot.

“It’s been 36 days since we proposed the name of Lucie Castets, he refuses to nominate the candidate of the New Popular Front to Matignon and then, he explains to us that in order not to put us behind on the budget, they are going to prepare a budget, which is completely outside the management of current affairs.”

This budget forecast, which is reversible, “is useless”adds the LFI MP for the 10th constituency of Val-de-Marne. Instead of worrying about the 2025 budget, Mathilde Panot advises the President of the Republic to deal with the only emergency there is: “Appoint Lucie Castets to Matignon” in order to allow the New Popular Front (NFP), which came out on top in the early legislative elections, to propose its budget and its economic programme to the “political and financial options that are completely different from the old majority.”

Mathilde Panot assures us that the NFP will have time to revolutionize this budget and to submit its draft Finance Bill to the National Assembly on October 1: “Don’t worry, we are ready to govern.”